title-character

Updated: August 3, 2026

Josephine Preston Peabody's interpretation of Marlowe is of the same sort. In the drama of which Marlowe is the title-character, his fellow-dramatist, Lodge, is much worried when he learns of Marlowe's mad passion for a woman of the court. Thou art a glorious madman, Lodge exclaims, Born to consume thyself anon in ashes, And rise again to immortality. Marlowe replies,

Elizabeth Atkins - The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years